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Bessie Watson

Nine-year-old bagpiper Bessie Watson piped for votes for women during the Women's Social and Political Union demonstration in Edinburgh on this date in 1909. Despite having had tuberculosis as a child she lived to be 91 and continued to pipe into her eighties. Source.

Sue Marsden

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Astrid Kirchherr, 1938-2020

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Madge Macbeth

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Bolaji Badejo

Bolaji Badejo, who played the xenomorph in the original Alien movie, died of sickle cell anemia on this date 25 years ago.

When I Die and Go to Heaven ...

I want to sit between these two people: Arnaldo Momigliano and Betty Radice. Douglas

Hanako Muraoka

NHK is currently airing a million-part morning drama about the life of Hanako Muraoka, the Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables, entitled Hanako To An (Hanako and Anne). That's Hanako in the middle. Picture source. NHK site.

Jesse Winchester

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding.

Obit.

Alex Colville

Alex Colville died Tuesday at age 92. He'll likely hold the title of top Maritime painter for the next century or so. One of the running jokes in Evangeline Brandt is that there is a Colville painting in every room in Sackville NB. These are Brandt or Zinck cartoons that reference Colville: "Seminar", "Homage à Trois",  "Waiting Room", "Kant and the Elements", "Notar".

Elizabeth McClung

Elizabeth McClung, author of Zed, and occasional commenter here at Plenty of Nothing, died the other day. Her blog Screw Bronze! records her life as a fencer, boxer, Japanophile, lesbian, Goth, medical critic and wheelchair driver. Heather's review of Zed was one of the first posts on Plenty of Nothing.

[Screw Bronze! can be read at the Wayback Machine. Search on http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.ca/.]